Charles Lindsey wrote:
> There has been (one-sided) discussion of it on the ietf-nntp list
Yes, a bunch of proposals to overrule STD 66 already discussed here
a year ago. A proposal to introduce new features for "news" also
discussed here a year ago:
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.uri/969> (2006-12-05)
The I-D tries to reflect what I think a majority of folks actually
wanted. Admittedly I also agree with...
| we came to what seemed to me to be a policy question of whether
| URI schemes are better off defining all of the options one might
| want to use [...] or to intentionally limit the syntax to things
| that can be trusted to be implemented by most all interpreters.
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.uri/1182> (2007-09-21)
> If it goes to IETF Last Call in its present state, I shall object
> vigorously.
Maybe that will help to get new opinions. There weren't that many
opinions wrt "wildmat" URIs (four, IIRC).
Frank